Manager, Global In-House Consulting

Mars • Chicago, IL

2d • $108,160 - $148,720 • Onsite

About The Position

The Manager of Global In-House Consulting for Mars Snacking will support the development and deployment of our global strategies, playing a key role in supporting the long-term growth and value creation journey of the company. This highly visible position, reporting to the Senior Director of Global In-House Consulting and working in close coordination with the Mars Snacking Leadership Team, will be filled by a candidate with exceptional drive and energy, who has strong analytical skills, the ability to turn data into insights, and highly effective verbal and written communications skills.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Business or related.
• 2+ years experience in global corporate strategy or strategy consulting at a top tier firm (with strong preference for CPG industry experience).
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to sift through large amounts of data, structure and conduct thoughtful analyses, identify insights and arrive at business recommendations.
• Strong communication and presentation skills, including the ability to synthesize and clearly communicate complex findings through focus on critical issues and actionable opportunities.
• Extensive experience in Microsoft PowerPoint and Excel required.

Nice To Haves

• MS/MBA is preferred.
• Experience with data analytics/visualization tools (Tableau, Alteryx) is a plus.
• Ability to quickly establish rapport, credibility, trust, and respect, with peers, team members, and executives.
• Comfort in dealing with ambiguity.
• Passion for consumer goods and our brands.

Responsibilities

• Drive our competitive intelligence and benchmarking work.
• Work in close collaboration with our regional teams and conduct desk research and data analysis.
• Execute on internal projects across a myriad of critical business issues to help deliver on our global strategy.
• Work with a broad range of stakeholders to define the key questions that need to be answered, develop a plan and approach to solve, and execute against the plan to deliver results.
• Assist in our efforts to communicate our challenges, strengths, and performance to senior stakeholders (C-suite / Board) via thoughtful, compelling, and polished presentations.
• Support our 3-year strategic planning process through coordinating and pressure-testing our region, market, and category plans.
• Leverage future-back thinking to highlight breakthrough ideas and concepts to enable our ongoing strategy development.

Benefits

• Best-in-class learning and development support from day one, including access to our in-house Mars University.
• An industry competitive salary and benefits package, including company bonus.
• variable pay
• medical and dental benefits
• participation in 401k plan
• paid time off benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager